More Greenwash Bullshit From Citibank

Watch out for World Resource Institute, they are claiming to be something they are not. Yes, these assclowns, have paired up with corporate terrorists Citigroup to produce fake environemntal proganda.

The report goes on to discuss 12 companies that will benefit from global warming. How convientant because the corporate terrorists at Citigroup are huge environmental destructivists and by stuffing World Resources Institutes g-strings they get to pretend like they aren't. In exchange for the report corporate terrorist Fred Wellington, senior financial analyst with WRI's capital markets research team, out right lies and whores for Citigroup praising them for their role in helping the environment.

But wait a second, does this sound like an environmentaly friendly terrorist cell (aka company)to youHere is the truth about Citigroup and their Environmental Destruction:

According to http://www.innercitypress.org/citi.html:

“Remember Citigroup’s loud claims to have become environmental? Well, last week it was reported that Citigroup will arrange a $10 billion loan to OAO Gazprom to finance the state-owned gas producer's purchase of a controlling stake in OAO Sibneft. Citigroup spokeswoman Lindsey Deans in London declined to comment. Typical.(www.innercitypress.org)”.

This is from the Sept. 19th update. Now let’s go back a few weeks to the week of August 22nd.

“Two of Citigroup’s far flung purchases last week -- a move on oil company, Inchon Oil Refinery Co., in South Korea (how’s that for environmental standards?) and, a department store with a subsidiary called Parasito.com. Yes, parasite -- that’s Citigroup(www.innercitypress.org)”

Citigroup is no stranger to environmental destruction. Only a few years ago Rain Forest Action Network had an anti-Citigroup campaign going. On April 15 2003 Rainforest Action Network declared the campaign off when Citigroup made a bunch of (false) promises to become a leader in environmental standards. Now not even two and a half years later Citigroup is back to its old games and fucking over the environment.

Any questions left on who is really profitting from environmental destruction?

Boycott Greenbiz the corporate terrorist site publishing this bullshit, boycott World Resources Institute-as their pairing with corporate terrorist Shitigroup shows where they real stand, and most of all boycott the corporate terrorists at Citigroup (bank, cards, etc).

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miss r, WE THE PEOPLE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ON 9/11. We know the planes weren't the cause, we know of the 5 dancing Mossad Israelis and their bomb-laced white moving van, we know of Larry Silverstein and his public admission of the cause on national camera, we know many more. We also know the causes of WW1, WWII, the war of Agression against the Vietnamese people, against the Cambodian people, against the Laos people, against the Korean people, against the Kosovan people, against the South American people, against the Afghanistan people, and against the Palestianian and Iraqi people.

miss r, WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID, we know what is going on, we keep meticulous track of things, and saving articles, videos, audio, photographic evidence, DNA evidence, Seismic evidence...

miss r, we also know that the "Asian Tsunamic" on December that masacred over 200 thousand HUMAN BEINGS, was NOT a natural disaster. We have geophysicists, geologists, engineers, scientists, independently investigators, and the like, meticulously gathering the evidence --- and believe me, we have a LOT OF DAMNING EVIDENCE.

miss r, WE SUGGEST you put a STOP to your LIES & DECEPTION! It will NOT work on us! We are not Stupid Little Children, that you and your kind tend to think. Unlike you, our IQs are higher, and we do not rely almost SOLELY on "inside" help to get our jobs, our education, our understanding. You, miss r, are a FRAUD... just like those you associate with. We KNOW THE TRUTH. And it is WELL DISSEMINATED AND SHARED AMONG OVER 1 BILLION PEOPLE on this planet. Whatever genocide your Khazars have planned will not completely distroy the COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE and EVIDENCE we have accumulated --- no matter how LARGE a ethnic genocide you ORCHESTRATE.

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miss r, I suggest you tell your "superiors" WE THE PEOPLE ARE FED UP!!! We ONLY WANT PEACE, we do not want another world war --- but if you push us, WE WILL FIGHT BACK, WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES, AND WE WILL DEFEND OUR FRIENDS AND THIS PLANET WE ALL CALL HOME!

Bilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose theirhomes in the months ahead. Meanwhile, they hope they can pressure President Bush to refrain from an all-out invasion of Iran while maintaining oil prices at their current record-high levels of about $70 a barrel.

Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, predicted rising interest rates and difficulties for families that have obtained adjustable rate mortgages, or “variable” interest rates. Many are likely to lose their homes as rising home mortgage rates add hundreds of dollars to their monthly payments, he said. While most listened solemnly and some expressed concern, one was heard to say, “stupid Americans deserve their fate.”

Many Americans, especially young families, have been buying expensive homes at low but “variable” interest rates. Others have been paying just the interest owed on their homes and not the principal. They are the most vulnerable, Geithner said. Some have paid little or nothing down. Some institutions “lend” buyers the down payment.

When home construction peaks and prices start downward, many will find they owe more on their home than it is worth in the marketplace. They will also find their mortgage—even “interest-only” payments—are unaffordable.The banks will get the homes back and sell them again.

Again, the term “stupid Americans” was heard among clucks of sympathy or silent indifference. According to one source, no concern was expressed by Allan Hubbard, assistant to President Bush for economic policy.

European Bilderbergers said they would have no part in an invasion of Iran, something Bush says is an “option on the table.” Although NATO is helping by adding 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, expect no help if Iran is invaded, they said. “We will not help you fight a war for Israel,” one said.

Several noted that Israel has had nuclear weapons since at least 1963 and has never signed on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so no international inspections are conducted. It was the late George Ball, a charter member of Bilderberg who was No. 2 man in the State Department under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who first revealed that Israel has nuclear weapons.

“Is it not reasonable that Iran would need such a deterrence against Israel?” an unidentified Bilderberger was heard saying. “If you invade Iran, Israel is your only ally and good luck.” One suggested that “surgical strikes”—but no land invasion—may be tolerated but others said they would be ineffective.

Listeners to this dialogue included Eival Gildy of Israel, head of “coordination and strategy in the office of the prime minister,” and Ziad Abu Amr, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, president of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations and professor of political science at Birzeit University. Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and one of the key sources of disinformation about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, was also present.

William Luti, special assistant to Bush for defense policy, and Richard Perle, former high Defense Department official and still a close adviser to Bush, responded that the United States is simply trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and make the world “safe.” But, said one European: “How ‘safe’ do you think the world will be if you invade Iran and Iran responds by firing missiles on your ally, Israel? Israel will nuke Iran in response and you will have your ‘proliferation.’”

Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state, said it would be necessary to keep the invasion “option” to pressure Iran into agreeing to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

“You’re wrong,” the European answered. “Iran simply refuses to be bullied by the United States. Save us a lot of trouble and forget about invading Iran.” The Americans remained silent.

Bilderberg’s mood was described as “uneasy” when it came to the issue of oil, a discussion followed closely by such oil-rich participants as banker David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Franco Bernabe, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe.

The “Latin American problem” mixed the issue of oil with Bilderberg’s scheme to expand NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and have it evolve into an “American Union” patterned after the European Union. Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela, is not only raising taxes on the extractionof oil from his country, he is trying to establish a trade coalition with neighboring nations that would block the expansion of NAFTA by creating the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Bilderberg’s consensus seemed to be to not force higher oil prices at the moment, but be content with the immense profits enjoyed now.

Chavez’s barrier to NAFTA expansion leaves them moody because establishing an “American Union” is a critical step toward Bilderberg’s goal of establishing the United Nations as a world government.

Why do we believe Zionists are the masterminds of the September 11 attack?

Let us count the reasons...

updated 13 April 2006

1) The Five Dancing Arabs

Five Arabs -- dressed in Arab clothing -- were seen celebrating after the World Trade Center towers were hit with airplanes.

Later that day he police spotted their van and stopped the. The police discovered that they were Israeli army veterans, not Arabs.

Their Arab clothing was discovered in their van, along with box cutters and weapons, and their visas had expired, so they were in the country illegally. There were arrested and put in a federal jail in Brooklyn.

However, they were not investigated. Rather, they were released from jail and sent back to Israel. About 60 other young Israeli Jews were arrested in the weeks following the 9-11 attack. They were also sent back to Israel without any investigation. www.washingtonpost.com A3879-2001Nov22

Reports several months later claim that up to 200 young Israelis, some of them former members of military intelligence units, had been arrested and sent back to Israel without any investigation. www.telegraph.co.uk/news 2002/03/07/ixworld

2) The Israeli spy ring

Carl Cameron, of Fox news, has a four-part investigation into an Israeli spy ring. The exposé was shown once, and then erased from the Fox web site, never to be seen again.

Some people made copies of the video, and there are transcripts on the Internet: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7545.htm

By spying on American military, FBI, and other officials, the Israelis would know how to evade getting caught, and they could acquire blackmail material over the large number of immoral officials.

3) Larry Silverstein is a Zionist

Larry Silverstein was the landlord of Building 7, and he got control of the World Trade Center towers a few weeks before the attack. He quickly replaced some of the security and maintenance personnel. He is receiving billions of dollars in insurance money as a result of 9-11 the attack.

Silverstein announced on television that the fire department decided to demolish Building 7 rather than put up the fires. If you have not heard this video clip, please watch the video 9/11, A Closer Look, at this site: www.HugeQuestions.com

Larry Silverstein and Benjamin Netanyahu are such close friends that Netanyahu would call Silverstein every Sunday. haaretzdaily.com itemNo=97338

4) Pentagon cannot account for $2.6 trillion

The accountants at the Pentagon claim that they cannot account for $2.6 trillion. The man at the top of this accounting mess is Dov Zakheim, a dual Israeli/American citizen.

In testimony before the Congress, Donald Rumsfeld minimizes it as an innocent mistake:

SEC. RUMSFELD:...I know Dr. Zakheim's been trying to hire CPAs because the financial systems of the department are so snarled up that we can't account for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist, if that's believable. And yet we're told that we can't hire CPAs to help untangle it in many respects. ...

And then he makes a joke about it:

REP. LEWIS: Thank you, Mr. Moran.

Mr. Secretary, the first time and the last time that Dov Zackheim and I broke bread together, he told me he would have a handle on that 2.6 trillion by now. (Laughter.) But we'll discuss that a little --

SEC. RUMSFELD: He's got a handle; it's just a little hot. (Laughter.)

The transcript is here: www.dod.gov/speeches/2001/s20010716-secdef2.html

• The Zionist boycott of German products in 1933 was intended to create anger towards Jews. This is a complex but very important issue; when you find the time, here are some articles to help you understand this:

Who really was behind the abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison? Take a look at the Israeli ties to the abuse at Abu Ghraib: • www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=48426

Who is "John Israel"? • www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=48433

Do Iraqi's have video cameras built into their rifles? • http://judicial-inc.biz/Israelis_In_Iraq.htm

Who are the "contractors" in Iraq? • http://judicial-inc.biz/Mercs_ambush_marines.htm

7) The media is controlled by Zionists

One the most important pieces of evidence that Zionists are the masterminds to almost all the world's corruption is that they dominate the media of Europe, North America, and Australia.

No crime network could get away with a crime as enormous as the September 11 attack unless they can suppress investigations and evidence.

The media executives must either be under the control of the crime network, or they must be part of the crime network.

Some people claim that the media companies are helpless victims of a mysterious, nebulous group called the Globalists, or the New World Order, or the Illuminati.

However, until somebody can identify these mysterious people and explain how they force media companies around the world to cover up horrendous crimes, it makes more sense to assume that the media is directly involved in these crimes, and they are among the top members of this criminal network.

The most logical explanation is that the Zionists are promoting other Zionists to top positions in the government, media, banking, Hollywood, and education. The more Zionists they promote, the easier it is for them to take control of the nation and supress evidence of their network.

• Zionist Power Structure In America www.the7thfire.com chapter_7

• One of many lists of Jews: www.reference.com/browse/wiki/List_of_Jews

The Zionists remove complaints about them, or they condemn critical remarks as "anti-Semitic". For example, did you know that President Truman was irritated by Zionists: www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A40678-2003Jul10

Truman was pushing into helping Israel get established. Here is a brief description of Israel's history to help you understand why Truman was irritated: www.EricHufschmid.net/HistoryOfIsraelAndTheUSA.html

8) Zionists have a world-wide network

Millions of dollars of profit were made in suspicious stock trades. The governments of America, Europe, and Japan announced plans to investigate in order to determine who the investors were. However, every investigation was terminated.

When looking for the crime network behind the September 11 attack, we must find a network that has tremendous influence in many nations. Does the Bush family have this much control over the world? Does Dick Cheney? Does any Italian crime gang?

The only group that seems to have a network this large are the Zionists. There are already Zionist organizations around the world. For example:

• The Zionist Federation of Australia www.zfa.com.au

• In the UK www.zionist.org.uk

• In Hungary www.cionista.hu

9) Most of the 9/11 truth seekers are Zionists

Jews make up a small portion of America and Europe, and Zionist Jews are an even smaller percentage, but they dominate the 911 truth movement. Could this be because Zionists care more about exposing corruption? Smith thinks not.

It is more likely because they are trying to fool people into thinking they are the truth seekers, when in reality they are diverting everybody's attention away from Israel and onto Bush, Cheney, the CIA, and a few military leaders.

Please consider that the people you trust to expose corruption, such as Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now), Alex Jones (www.infowars.com), Webster Tarpley (author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA), Dave von Kleist (The PowerHour radio show), and hundreds or thousands of others are deceiving us.

Why would those people lie? Here is an introduction: To get away with crimes, pretend to be a crime fighter

Examples of Truth Seekers who are Zionists: • Crypto Zionists • What are Handlers?

10) Most people pushing UFOs are Zionists

Zionists promote a lot of idiotic theories, such as the idea that the airplanes that hit the World Trade Center towers were either holograms or illusions created by blue screen technology.

This is evidence that they are trying to send people down the wrong path, and create the impression that conspiracy theories are stupid.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to figure out who among us has been fooled into believing these idiotic theories; who is deliberately lying about them; and who has been threatened, bribed, or blackmailed into promoting them. Examples are Morgan Reynolds and Jimmy Walter: • The Bovine Gas Theory • Jimmy Walter promotes Blue Screens

Another example is a person who calls himself Ghostwolfemoon. He posts messages on the Internet. One of his recent messages promotes UFOs: US astronauts spotted UFO's on moon???

And in this message he promotes Alex Jones, Bob Bowman, and the theory that Cheney is the main suspect for 9/11: Cheney main 9-11 suspect????

Jeff Rense promotes UFO theories on a regular basis. One of his most recent: Were US astronauts ordered not to report UFOs & aliens?

11) AIPAC and Jack Abramoff

Does Jack Abramoff -- another Zionist -- merely provide Israel with influence over America? Or did he assist with the 9-11 attack?

Daniel Hopsicker thinks so; he reported that days before the 9-11 attack, Mohamed Atta and several other alleged hijackers were invited on Abramoff’s casino boats. www.madcowprod.com/06202005.html

If this accusation turns out to be true, this is evidence that the hijackers were patsies for the Zionists. Furthermore, Abramoff’s connections with AIPAC, Tom delay, and other people should be investigated.

News reports frequently remind us that Arabs and Iranians are determined to destroy Israel. For example: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3239476,00.html

However, most of their victims are other Arabs, or goyim from America and Britain. Why don't the Arabs attack Israelis? Why don't they attack American Zionists?

• For example, the Syrians are blamed for killing Rafik Hariri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon: www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/14/beirut.explosion/index.html

However, the crater from this car bomb is a sign that the bomb was actually underground, not in a car: www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=65258

• On October 15, 2003, another large bomb destroyed a car, supposedly with CIA agents inside: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3193248.stm

It also excavated a crater that has the telltale signs of the bomb that was underground: http://judicial-inc.biz/cia_in_gaza.htm

• Have you seen the enormous crater from the 1996 "truck bomb" at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed US Military personnel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Khobartowersgroundzero.jpg

How does Al Qaeda do this? If you believe the Arabs are doing this with car bombs, please look at this Science Challenge and pass it to college students: www.EricHufschmid.net/Science_Challenge_12.html

And if you think this is going to stop anytime soon, please read this, and think about it: www.EricHufschmid.net/Conspiracies5.htm

We do not yet have enough people who care. Will we in the future? Only if you can help us find more people who are tired of the corruption.

Conclusion

Standing up to Italian crime gangs is not anti-Italian; standing up to American crime gangs is not anti-American; and standing up to homosexuals who have been blackmailed over their homosexuality is not anti-homosexual.

So don't be fooled into thinking that standing up to Zionist crime gangs is anti-Semitic!

When you are ready to stop being a victim of crime networks, join with us by heping to educate people.

In passing President Bush's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act last month, a bipartisan Senate coalition has shown itself to be suffering from the dubious, irresponsible mindset articulated in Yiddish as "Sie machen sich nicht wissentig" and by Thomas Aquinas as "Ignorantia Affectata": willfully making themselves unknowing while feigning ignorance about inconvenient facts.

A majority of Senate Democrats chose to pander to Latinos, abandoning principle and the party's historical base to placate a potentially larger electorate. A minority of the chamber's Republicans, meanwhile, gave the service sector, agro-business and other industries employing unskilled workers a bottomless pool of cheap labor.

All senators who voted for the bill ignored broader ethical, social and environmental concerns, and most ominously the law of unintended consequences. Their caricature immigration reform is pure special-interest politics, denying the very idea of a national interest. Not so incidentally, it also threatens Jewish allegiances, interests and dishonors Jewish values.

Americans across the spectrum view immigration as sacred in the history of their families and country; they are appalled to see it profaned by lawbreakers, unscrupulous businessmen and myopic politicians. As sociologist Alan Wolfe has noted, differentiating legal immigration from illegal immigration "is one of the most tenaciously held distinctions in middle-class America... people overwhelmingly support legal immigration and express disgust with the illegal variety." Contrary to what some are trying to argue, the fight over the bill does not pit liberals against conservatives. Its strongest boosters are the Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street Journal and Bush — none standard bearers for progressive causes

Focusing narrowly on illegal immigration, however, misses the main point: Bush's bill trebles legal immigration. Population explosion is the legislation's largest impact, but in a breathtaking abdication of public trust the Senate simply did not get it. Not until the Heritage Foundation's John Rector published a paper showing it would increase America's population by one-third did the Senate quickly pass an amendment reducing the guest-worker program. The amendment amnesties 12 million illegal aliens, an act that simply ignores history — the amnesty offered by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act increased illegal immigration five-fold.

Yet even 12 million amnestied illegal aliens is a drop in the bucket. Rector's cautious estimates predict more than 66 million in 20 years — and the total will likely be larger, given that increasing individual legal immigration primes the pump.

The reason is what is called "chain immigration." It begins with one immigrant legally bringing a spouse and minor children — keep in mind that Mexicans average four children per family — and, within a few years, after they've been naturalized, parents and siblings; the same process is then repeated by their relatives, ad infinitum.

Mexico's work force is roughly 43 million. The 12 million illegal aliens granted amnesty by Bush's bill, supplemented by only 15% of 43 million, forges a chain with 18.45 million links. Add 200,000 guest-worker families a year and an annual influx of 800,000 to 900,000 illegal aliens, and America's population will expand by more than a third in fewer than 20 years.

The Senate also ignored the impact on the welfare system of the millions of immigrants who will rely on it but will not earn enough to pay taxes to support it. Mexican immigrant income is extremely low compared to that of American workers, and it takes decades to achieve parity.

Once a solid majority of the 12 million to be amnestied by Bush's bill are naturalized, public entitlements to some 3.8 million households will total $19 billion annually. Chain-immigrating parents and siblings eligible for federal welfare will cost $30 billion a year — if only 10% of parents of those naturalized become residents.

The bill traduces Jewish values, sacrificing Judaism's central tenet: pursuing justice. Citing Leviticus 19 in defense of the legislation, as some of the bill's Jewish supporters have, is sacrilegious. This magisterial text commands us to "love the stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Note that it says love, not exploit for economic or political gain.

The bill also rejects Jeremiah's injunction to "seek the welfare of the city where I have exiled you... in its prosperity you will find peace" (29:4-7). Massive immigration will eviscerate the social safety net — betraying America's working poor and unemployed by exploiting immigrants is not tikkum olam.

Despite official mantras, immigrants are not only taking jobs Americans are unwilling to do. There is no labor shortage. Immigrants willingly accept low wages, thereby increasing unemployment — which is already astronomical among black men and seasonal rural workers — and depressing wages for our poorest workers.

Where is the historical Jewish concern for African Americans? Racism's bitter legacies survive: widespread poverty, residential apartheid, unequal opportunity, generations of black men lost to the criminal justice system, implosion of the poor black family. Justice for millions of Americans who have made gigantic contributions to America's wealth as slaves and been oppressed for centuries is unfinished business. Before importing massive poverty, let's complete it.

Closer to home, massive immigration will obliterate Jewish power by shrinking our percentage of the population — to a fraction of 1% in 20 years. Jews possess political clout despite tiny numbers because we are concentrated in large electoral vote states, have legendary voting rates, donate significantly to both parties and dominant culture. We will retain residual influence due to campaign contributions, membership in institutional establishments and the endurance of our alliances, but the Latino vote will eventually overwhelm us.

Moreover, Jewish-Latino political interests clash. We have fought over both refugee and asylum slots: we wanted them for Soviet Jewry, Latinos for Central Americans fleeing the dirty wars in Central America. We won, but at a cost. And except for the evangelical part of the community, Latinos do not share any particularly strong bond to Israel.

We are divided by socioeconomic chasms that will not be easier to bridge than those that bedeviled black-Jewish relations. With huge numbers on their side, they will have little need for allies, compromise or concern for others' agendas. Most troubling, survey research, including by the Anti-Defamation League, shows Latinos to be more antisemitic than any group except Muslims.

With Israel facing an existential threat from Iran, Israeli-Palestinian relations having reached bottom and global Islamism targeting Jews, hastening disempowerment is indefensible. Latino population growth is inevitable, but exponential growth is not. If we can keep the numbers within reasonable bounds — which would hasten immigrant acculturation and reduce traditional cultural bigotry — we will likely maintain our position.

Substituting knowledge for Jewish sentimentality regarding immigration means debunking myths reflecting ignorance of Jewish immigration's uniqueness. Unlike many other newcomers to America, Jews were refugees and asylum seekers escaping religious persecution, tyranny and pogroms. Most immigrants, by contrast, are not refugees: They come to make money.

Unlike many others, Jews migrated one way. Jews did not remain loyal to antisemitic countries of origin; most learned English immediately and embraced Americanism. Millions today immigrate for economic gain while despising America and maintaining loyalty to home countries.

We can best honor our immigrant experience by advocating for more generous policies for real refugees and asylum seekers — not by pushing for legislation that betrays America's workers, devastates America's poor, exploits Mexicans, threatens America's social cohesion and endangers Jewish interests.

Stephen Steinlight, senior policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies, is former director of national affairs at the American Jewish Committee and co-author of "Fractious Nation: Unity and Disunity in Contemporary American Life" (University of California Press-Berkeley, 2004).

The Bush administration is trying to create the image of the USA as a democratic country. It demands that many other countries around the world should follow the rules of American democracy. However at the same time US rulers are carrying plenty of secret programs, violating human rights and the only explanation is their counterterrorist efforts. There have been many scandals around secret prisons, secret eavesdropping and today the story repeats itself.

The Bush administration, relying on a presidential declaration of emergency, has secretly been tapping into a vast global database of confidential financial transactions for nearly five years, according to U.S. government and industry officials.

Secrecy appears to become an inseparable part of Bush's policy.

Initiated shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the surveillance program has used a broad new interpretation of the Treasury Department's administrative powers to bypass traditional banking privacy protections. It has swept in large volumes of international money transfers, including many made by U.S. citizens and residents, in an effort to track the locations, identities and activities of suspected terrorists.

Current and former counterterrorist officials said the program works in parallel with previously reported surveillance of international telephone calls, faxes and e-mails by the National Security Agency, which has eavesdropped without warrants on more than 5,000 Americans suspected of terrorist links. Together with a hundredfold expansion of the FBI's use of "national security letters" to obtain communications and banking records, the secret NSA and Treasury programs have built unprecedented government databases of private transactions, most of them involving people who prove irrelevant to terrorist investigators.

Stuart Levey, undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in an interview last night that the newly disclosed program -- the existence of which the government sought to conceal -- has used the agency's powers of administrative subpoena to compel an international banking consortium to open its records. The Brussels-based cooperative, known as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, links about 7,800 banks and brokerages and handles billions of transactions a year, The Washington Post reports.

Swift is an industry cooperative, formed in 1973 by international banks and based in Belgium, that acts as an electronic gatekeeper for most of the world's major banks, brokerages, and investment managers to transmit funds across borders. Swift doesn't handle any funds, but processes some 11 million sets of transfer instructions and confirmations daily - more than 2.5 billion a year.

Through Swift, banks and brokerages relay information to each other about financial transfers through a series of standardized forms that contain large amounts of information, including the identities of sender and recipients, the amount being transferred, the account numbers used and intermediate banks. The actual funds or securities are transferred later by banks or clearing and settlement companies.

Swift's board of directors is chosen by member banks; its legal regulator is the National Bank of Belgium, The Wall Street Journal says.

The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas and into and out of the United States . Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database.

That access to large amounts of confidential data was highly unusual, several officials said, and stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.

"The capability here is awesome or, depending on where you're sitting, troubling," said one former senior counterterrorism official who considers the program valuable. While tight controls are in place, the official added, "the potential for abuse is enormous."

The program is separate from the National Security Agency's efforts to eavesdrop without warrants and collect domestic phone records, operations that have provoked fierce public debate and spurred lawsuits against the government and telecommunications companies.

But all the programs grew out of the Bush administration's desire to exploit technological tools to prevent another terrorist strike, and all reflect attempts to break down longstanding legal or institutional barriers to the government's access to private information about Americans and others inside the United States .

Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing. Much more limited agreements with other companies have provided access to A.T.M. transactions, credit card purchases and Western Union wire payments, the officials said, The New York Times reports.

Concerned Citizen,Miss R. is in the second stage of accepting the truth: violent resistance. When the rich white male corporate terrorists attack her and do her in (if she lives through it-and doesn't starve or die from lack of health care, etc. ) than she will come to accept the truth, although one would hope that she would join the fight against the rich white male corporate terrorists before this happens.

While most listened solemnly and some expressed concern, one was heard to say, “stupid Americans deserve their fate.”

I don't know if I agree with this statement when it comes to homes, but I definetly agree with it when it comes to SUV's/Trucks. The stupid idiots who were dumb enough to buy SUV's they can't afford deserve to know have to take the bus as I have heard of numerous cases of SUV's/Trucks being reposed. The economy is already ugly and it is about to get uglier. And the corporate terrorists are getting closer and closer into turning us all into a slave race.

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